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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Scott County, Tennessee

Scott County, Tennessee has 471 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–1988, including 55 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 153 problems in the county, 83 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 190 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Scott County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
471
Mine openings
55
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
83
MSHA mines marked abandoned
190
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1946–1988 153 OSMRE problems, 70 reclaimed 21 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    62 9.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    415 66.5%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    1 0.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    35 5.6%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    4 0.6%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    107 17.1%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Rainbow Mines Strip Mine area

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems153 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Almy School P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Almy School P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Almy School P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Almy School P3 Bench Reclamation Completed
Almy School P3 Bench Reclamation Completed
Almy School P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Almy School P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Almy School P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Almy School P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Anderson Mountain P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Anderson Mountain P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Anderson Mountain P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Anderson Mountain P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Anderson Mountain P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Armstrong Branch P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Armstrong Branch P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Armstrong Branch P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Armstrong Branch P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Asher Fork P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Asher Fork P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Bills Branch P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Bills Branch P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Bills Branch P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Brown Pond P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Brown Pond P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Brown Pond P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Brown Pond P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Brown Pond P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Brown Pond P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Brown Pond P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Buffalo Mountain P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Burges Creek P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Burges Creek P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Burges Creek P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Burges Creek P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Burges Creek P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Burges Creek P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Burges Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Burges Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Burges Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Butchers Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Butchers Creek P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Butchers Creek P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Butchers Creek P3 Bench In Reclamation
Butchers Creek P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Butchers Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Butchers Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Butchers Creek P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Childers Creek P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Childers Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Cotton Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Cotton Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Grave Hill P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Grave Hill P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Grave Hill P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Grave Hill P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Grave Hill P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Grave Hill P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Grave Hill P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Grave Hill P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Huntsville P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Jones Branch P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Jones Branch P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Jones Branch P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Jones Branch P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Jones Branch P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Jones Branch P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Jones Branch P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Jones Branch P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Jones Branch P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Lawson P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Lawson P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Lawson P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Lawson P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Lawson P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Leatherwood Ford P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Leatherwood Ford P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Leatherwood Ford P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Lone Mountain P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Lone Mountain P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Lone Mountain P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Lone Mountain P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Lone Mountain P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Lone Mountain P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Low Gap P3 Bench In Reclamation
Low Gap P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Low Gap P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Low Gap P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Marsh Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Marsh Creek P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Marsh Creek P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Marsh Creek P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Marsh Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Mill Creek P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Mill Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P3 Bench Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Montgomery P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Montgomery P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Norma P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Norma P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Norma P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Norma P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
North Jellico Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
North Jellico Creek P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
North Jellico Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
North Jellico Creek P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
North Jellico Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
North Jellico Creek P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Pemberton Branch P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Pemberton Branch P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Pemberton Branch P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Piney Grove P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Piney Grove P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Piney Grove P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Piney Grove P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Piney Grove P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Pre 87 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Rector P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Pending
Rector P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Rector P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Rockhouse P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Rockhouse P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Rockhouse P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Service Flat P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Service Flat P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Service Flat P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Service Flat P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
South Jellico Creek P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
South Jellico Creek P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
South Jellico Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
South Jellico Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Sulfur Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Sulfur Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Sulfur Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Sulfur Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tn - Scott - Fea P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed

…and 3 more problems not listed here.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned190 on register
  1. #1
    Surface coal · Sweet Pea · MSHA ID 4002886
    Abandoned
  2. #1
    Underground coal · Sexton'S Mine Company · MSHA ID 4002888
    Abandoned and Sealed
  3. #1
    Surface coal · Matt Lawson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002929
    Abandoned
  4. #1 Mine Strip
    Surface coal · Srs Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001776
    Abandoned
  5. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Gary Bridges Logging & Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001795
    Abandoned
  6. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Kansas Utilities Inc · MSHA ID 4002495
    Abandoned
  7. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Maiden Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002574
    Abandoned
  8. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Paint Creek Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002619
    Abandoned
  9. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Sexton Brothers Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4002623
    Abandoned
  10. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Coach Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4002709
    Abandoned
  11. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · R & W Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002920
    Abandoned
  12. #1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Helenwood Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4001118
    Abandoned
  13. #1 Ug Mine
    Underground coal · Royal Dean Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000526
    Abandoned
  14. #2 Mine
    Underground coal · Coal Hill Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002942
    Abandoned and Sealed
  15. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Bud Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002220
    Abandoned
  16. #3-2 Mine
    Underground coal · U S Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001977
    Abandoned and Sealed
  17. Area No 1
    Surface coal · Fox Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002793
    Abandoned
  18. B & L 10a/10b
    Surface coal · Walker & Walker Inc · MSHA ID 4002800
    Abandoned
  19. B A M Coal Tipple #1
    Facility coal · B A M Coal Tipple #1 · MSHA ID 4002239
    Abandoned
  20. Big D Coal Corp Surface
    Surface coal · Big D Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4002490
    Abandoned
  21. Brimstone No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Rector & Coffey Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002375
    Abandoned
  22. Brimstone Tipple
    Facility coal · Tennessee Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002395
    Abandoned
  23. Buffalo #2
    Surface coal · Ephraim Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002631
    Abandoned
  24. Buffalo No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · New Market Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002440
    Abandoned
  25. C & H No 1
    Surface coal · C & H Construction Company · MSHA ID 4002055
    Abandoned
  26. Coalco Strip #1
    Surface coal · Coalco Inc · MSHA ID 4001580
    Abandoned
  27. Conrich Wash Plant
    Facility coal · LCC Tennessee, LLC · MSHA ID 4002818
    Abandoned
  28. Cpc Coal No 1 Auger
    Surface coal · C & C Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002216
    Abandoned
  29. Elgin Coal Sales
    Facility coal · Elgin Coal Sales · MSHA ID 4002541
    Abandoned
  30. Helenwoodwood Energy Inc #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Helenwood Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4002354
    Abandoned
  31. Jacksboro Coal Corp #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Jacksboro Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4002634
    Abandoned
  32. Job #1
    Surface coal · Imperial Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4002282
    Abandoned
  33. Low Top Mining
    Surface coal · Low Top Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002974
    Abandoned
  34. Lynco Mining Co #1
    Surface coal · Lynco Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002959
    Abandoned
  35. Madison Mine #1
    Surface coal · Madison Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002739
    Abandoned
  36. Mine #2
    Underground coal · Beech Bottom Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001778
    Abandoned and Sealed
  37. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Dark Diamond Inc · MSHA ID 4000475
    Abandoned and Sealed
  38. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Little Rock Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4002470
    Abandoned and Sealed
  39. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Reatta Mining · MSHA ID 4002775
    Abandoned and Sealed
  40. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Top Quality Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002957
    Abandoned
  41. Mine No 2
    Underground coal · Scott Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4002615
    Abandoned and Sealed
  42. Mine No 3
    Underground coal · Coal Hill Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002808
    Abandoned
  43. Mine No. 1
    Underground coal · Harness Coal Company LLC · MSHA ID 4003141
    Abandoned
  44. Mine No. 8
    Underground coal · National Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 4002469
    Abandoned and Sealed
  45. Mine No. 9
    Underground coal · National Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 4003167
    Abandoned and Sealed
  46. Newtown Tipple
    Facility coal · West Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4001123
    Abandoned
  47. No 1
    Surface coal · Gum Fork Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4001675
    Abandoned
  48. No 1
    Surface coal · Jeffers Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4002228
    Abandoned
  49. No 1
    Underground coal · Black River Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002829
    Abandoned and Sealed
  50. No 1 Auger
    Surface coal · J & J Auger Mining · MSHA ID 4002084
    Abandoned
  51. No 1 Auger
    Surface coal · High Top Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002186
    Abandoned
  52. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · C & R Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000455
    Abandoned
  53. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Smokey Creek Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000473
    Abandoned
  54. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · L & A Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000525
    Abandoned and Sealed
  55. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Devonia Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4000705
    Abandoned
  56. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Oneida Fuel & Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001026
    Abandoned
  57. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Big K Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001171
    Abandoned and Sealed
  58. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · New River Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001443
    Abandoned
  59. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Highland Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001587
    Abandoned
  60. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Black Oak Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001604
    Abandoned
  61. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Lone Mountain Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001619
    Abandoned
  62. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Bullock & Robbins Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001631
    Abandoned
  63. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · C & L Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001634
    Abandoned
  64. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · First Scott Corp · MSHA ID 4001717
    Abandoned
  65. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Round Mountain Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002090
    Abandoned
  66. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · D D & L Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002221
    Abandoned
  67. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Massengale Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002291
    Abandoned
  68. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · State Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002292
    Abandoned
  69. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Green Branch Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002807
    Abandoned and Sealed
  70. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Brush Ridge Mining · MSHA ID 4002857
    Abandoned
  71. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · D H Campbell Inc · MSHA ID 4000462
    Abandoned
  72. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Laco Mining Company · MSHA ID 4001288
    Abandoned
  73. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · M A S H Inc · MSHA ID 4001736
    Abandoned
  74. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Black Jewell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001794
    Abandoned
  75. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Price Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001987
    Abandoned
  76. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Coach Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4002459
    Abandoned
  77. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Flat Rock Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002559
    Abandoned
  78. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Daugherty Bros Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4002579
    Abandoned
  79. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · T & S Products · MSHA ID 4002647
    Abandoned
  80. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · M & T Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002665
    Abandoned
  81. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · H & D Trucking · MSHA ID 4002668
    Abandoned
  82. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Spring Ridge Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002677
    Abandoned
  83. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Acme Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002702
    Abandoned
  84. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Can'T Hardly Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002867
    Abandoned
  85. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · C & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002922
    Abandoned
  86. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Paint Rock Coal & Lumber Company · MSHA ID 4000832
    Abandoned
  87. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Longwa Inc · MSHA ID 4001590
    Abandoned
  88. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Big T Inc · MSHA ID 4001685
    Abandoned
  89. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · S E C Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001702
    Abandoned
  90. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Partin & Mullins Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001705
    Abandoned
  91. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Black Mountain Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001708
    Abandoned
  92. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Robert Smith Excavating Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001724
    Abandoned
  93. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Lewis Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001765
    Abandoned
  94. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Philbros Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001772
    Abandoned
  95. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Simpson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001784
    Abandoned
  96. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · B A M Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001785
    Abandoned
  97. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · David F King & Son · MSHA ID 4001804
    Abandoned
  98. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Boutain Inc · MSHA ID 4001835
    Abandoned
  99. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Big Valley Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001872
    Abandoned
  100. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Todd Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4001875
    Abandoned
  101. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Tafco Inc · MSHA ID 4001971
    Abandoned
  102. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Blevins Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001993
    Abandoned
  103. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Carson Brothers Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001994
    Abandoned
  104. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Sexton Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002023
    Abandoned
  105. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Meadows Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002027
    Abandoned
  106. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Overton & Cook Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002049
    Abandoned
  107. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Cofer & Cofer Construction · MSHA ID 4002057
    Abandoned
  108. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Whaley & Stonecipher Energy · MSHA ID 4002059
    Abandoned
  109. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · K & M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002070
    Abandoned
  110. No 1 Surface
    Underground coal · Lillard Miller Excavating · MSHA ID 4002078
    Abandoned
  111. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Triple B Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002083
    Abandoned
  112. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Triangle Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 4002192
    Abandoned
  113. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Phillips & Son Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002236
    Abandoned
  114. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Massengale Brothers Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002298
    Abandoned
  115. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · King Construction Company · MSHA ID 4002302
    Abandoned
  116. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Scarlett Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4002334
    Abandoned
  117. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Black Oak Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002343
    Abandoned
  118. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Sexton Excavating · MSHA ID 4002356
    Abandoned
  119. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Wash Ridge Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002357
    Abandoned
  120. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Wildcat Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002372
    Abandoned
  121. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Sun Ray Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002373
    Abandoned
  122. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Nick'S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002405
    Abandoned
  123. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Chaco Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002434
    Abandoned
  124. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Crooks Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002436
    Abandoned
  125. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Canterbury Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4002481
    Abandoned
  126. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · K & K Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4002505
    Abandoned
  127. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Big A Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002538
    Abandoned
  128. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Belor Inc · MSHA ID 4002573
    Abandoned
  129. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Hubert Mc Cullah Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002581
    Abandoned
  130. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Fork Mountain Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4002620
    Abandoned
  131. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Ramex Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4002628
    Abandoned
  132. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Triple M Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002653
    Abandoned
  133. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Gray Ridge Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002664
    Abandoned
  134. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · L & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002751
    Abandoned
  135. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Big South Inc · MSHA ID 4002786
    Abandoned
  136. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Kabeba Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002819
    Abandoned
  137. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Phillips Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002856
    Abandoned
  138. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · G B A Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002889
    Abandoned
  139. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · R Mining Company · MSHA ID 4003029
    Abandoned
  140. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Sterling Garrett Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 4001672
    Abandoned
  141. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Hadley & Hall Excavators · MSHA ID 4001758
    Abandoned
  142. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Texas Energy Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001088
    Abandoned
  143. No 1 Tipple
    Surface coal · Tafco Inc · MSHA ID 4001110
    Abandoned
  144. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Overton Brothers Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001126
    Abandoned
  145. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Pine Hill Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001699
    Abandoned
  146. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · T & C Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001781
    Abandoned
  147. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Southeast Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4002006
    Abandoned
  148. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Laco Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002043
    Abandoned
  149. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Sam'S Tipple Company · MSHA ID 4002207
    Abandoned
  150. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Land Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002283
    Abandoned

…and 40 more mines not listed here.

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Strip Mine 405
Adit 55
P3 Spoil Area 27
P3 Bench 21
P3 Pits 20
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 16
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 12
P3 Haul Road 10
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 7
P3 High Wall 7
P1 Dangerous Slides 6
P2 Portals 6
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 4
Strip Mine 4
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Disturbed Surface 2
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 2
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
P2 Dangerous Slides 2
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 1
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
P2 Vertical Openings 1
P3 Gobs 1
P3 Other 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
Quarry 1
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A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.